Go Car Tours

Broken down contraptions and GPS does not work. BEWARE!! Total waste of time and tour is awful we had to return them within 30 minutes! After trying to navigate back to where originally departed on our own because GPS broken.
When we asked for a refund they do not provide good customer service and argued with us and told us to seek a refund via Viator the ticket service we purchased tickets through!
They explained after we returned that we should have called them on tour when GPS failed but did not tell us in advance what number to call! Despite advertising on the car itself and the fact we were in car - not looking at outside of car - so we could not see number for help while actually driving contraption! When we departed the guy who gave us car spoke no English and never told us to call number on outside of car/l or key if we had a problem! We just headed back!
These things are unsafe, unreliable, and service was awful!

In hindsight, this was the dumbest idea ever. Two people who make it major point to live in walking cities decide to drive around in a wacky contraption through a foreign city.

As soon as I laid eyes on the price list to replace parts one might break and the steering get up (not a wheel and peddles like a car or petty cab, but handles like a scooter), I forcefully volunteered to be the navigator.

GPS guides the tour and the tour tells you when to turn, but there is no visual like on a Garmin or Tom-Tom. One is forced to follow a map with coded routes of 1, 2, 2 1/2 or 4 hours duration. None of this accounts for closed roads, construction or traffic.

Back to my job as navigator. Well, yeah I have a great sense of direction, but not super-vision to read a map on a super bumpy ride. This caused us to get lost a few times. Once, my boyfriend had to jump out and push the cart because it didn't have reverse and we'd become stuck on a road that was closed. I spent most of my time with my nose in the map, trying to hold it still enough to read. He spent most of his time trying to watch for traffic. We spent all of the time inhaling exhaust fumes. We spent just some of the time actually getting to listen to the recorded guide.

"That was easy! Isn't this fun?"

"No that wasn't easy and no this isn't fun. In fact, I divide my life in to two different types of experiences; things that are fun and this."

(Okay, the only fun we had was making fun of the recorded lady's voice and the evil things we wanted to do to her for being so perky.)

I am certainly not one to take myself seriously and generally don't care what people think of me, but we were both tangibly aware that we looked like idiot tourists. I am sure all of the local drivers hate the little, yellow petty cabs and the dumb tourists who can't drive in their city. The feeling of everyone looking at us goof up added to the tension. One driver honked and yelled at us in Spanish, even though it was the car ahead of us blocking the intersection. Even if my boyfriend jumped out and did the push-it-in-reverse, there was nothing we could have done to rectify the situation.

We agreed to take a short cut back in order to return the Go-Kar. We really needed to get some beers to calm down after all that stress. Funny thing, they didn't even question why we returned it after only 40 minutes.